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For Windows 7 using Win Toolkit? I'm not aware of further removals through Win Toolkit that can save any appreciable space without effecting capabilities. I personally remove nothing, but that's just me. What "sooooo many things to remove" are you referring to?

@Liam, are you still considering updating multiple images in Win Toolkit by means of integrating updates into the lowest image of each x86 and x64, and then copying/exporting/promoting the image and renaming it to each other image name desired? I know you experimented with this method just to verify that it worked, and you said it did, but I don't know if it can be automated with Win Toolkit. If so, it would solve the above problem and save a LOT of time. Cheers and Regards

@ETZ, you might want to check this out - Shark007's Codec Pack Maker 3.0.0. It should be able to make an installer for you from the official Shark007 downloads that strips all of the unwanted stuff out of it. I think it also allows installation unattended, but I install it attended myself. If nothing else I'm sure Escorpiom would appreciate some feedback for installation attempts in Windows 8.x. NOTE: You might need to be a member to get to that forum thread if you are not already, but don't worry, it's free and many of the members here are members there as well. I'm sure you'll see some familiar folks. Cheers and Regards

Welcome to WinCert! Cheers and Regards

You're beyond my knowledge level now, I know just enough to be dangerous, so hopefully someone else will offer you more information. Good luck. NOTE: You'll probably need to know exactly what the differences are between the OEM and a "standard" install disc so you will be able to tell someone else what exactly you need to move over. Cheers and Regards

I have seen that other programs, such as perhaps RT7Lite, have said that they are able to do that, at least on a retail ISO, I'm not sure about OEM. But be aware that that app has not been updated in years, and implements the function through somewhat of a hack. I know others have had success with it, but personally I would not trust it, especially if you are trying to maintain the "purity" of the OEM ISO. Would it be possible to add the relevant parts of the OEM ISO to the SP3 ISO I pointed to above, so you have the same essential results, but use more up to date tools? Just an idea. Cheers and Regards

AFAIK, no it is not possible. (But I could be wrong.) Cheers and Regards

Don't try. Instead download an ISO with SP1 already integrated. See here. Use that as the source for your builds. Cheers and Regards

This should probably be a decision that either Nim or Lego should make. Cheers and Regards

Your welcome. For any future problems, it is also possible that a browser extension can be at fault. Only way to know for sure is if you disable each extension one at a time until they are all disabled, and then try a different browser for good measure. Problems like this can be a royal pain to troubleshoot, but is is very rarely the ISP. Cheers and Regards

1. Done I don't know if it is because of something you did or a problem with the board, but now the link on this page, ie currently this one, sometimes takes a LOOOONG time to get to the page with the actual download links and sometimes even times out. I don't know if there is anything you can do, but thought I would report it. EDIT: It's probably something screwy with the board, because this post also timed out when I was trying to make it. Cheers and Regards

@Liam, Does using the installer offer any advantage, for either you or the user, over the 7z files? I'm curious why you decided to offer the installer, besides experimenting with how it works. Cheers and Regards

Are you sure it is your ISP that is blocking it? Could it possibly be either a setting in your Firewall or AV, your DNS, or even your HOSTS file? All of those could block the site. Cheers and Regards

The file is not stored on RyanVM, but the link to where the file is stored is there, but I confirm it currently is not functioning. I'm sure the DL is just temporarily unavailable. harkaz is probably making improvements.updates, but I'll let him confirm that. Cheers and Regards

Yep Thanks! Cheers and Regards

So apparently they are gone until mooms finds another location for them. Cheers and Regards

Actually, since MS owns the copyright to the software, they are within their rights to control how the software is distributed, whether it is modified in any way or not. Cheers and Regards

Just a suggestion, but when there are no test builds, then maybe you should change the link in your sig to point to the download page? That way, "Latest builds" will always point to the latest version of Win Toolkit. Cheers and Regards

You're quite welcome. I'm glad you can make use of my suggestions. Here's another helpful hint: I'm not sure if you were being coy or not, but in both the quick and full edit box you can click and drag the bottom right corner to make the edit box bigger. Cheers and Regards

Hopefully, you are at least a little familiar with the BBCode that used to be the primary means of editing posts on many forum boards? If so, then I have two suggestions: 1) It is sometimes easier to edit in BBCode mode. You can activate it here by clicking the little block in the top left of the edit box, directly above the B, ie Bold. That will toggle the edit box back and forth between BBCode mode and WYSIWYG mode. In BBCode mode, everything is just text which can be more convenient at times. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it can definitely be handy. 2) Once it is in BBCode mode, and the post is rendered completely in text form, some people find it more convenient to copy it to a different text editor and manipulate and massage the post there. When you are ready to see what it will look like on the board, then you can copy it into the edit box and click "More Reply Options" where you can preview the post and go back and forth between the other text editor if necessary until it is what you want. Good luck, and thanks for the work you have been sharing on the board! Cheers and Regards

@Liam, I'm not sure I understand why this is true, (if it is): Can't they be installed directly from the INSTALLDIR location without being copied, or have I misunderstood how it works? Cheers and Regards

AFAIK, You don't need to install the entire ADK in order to install DISM, at least it used to be that way, and there are tools available to download just DISM so you don't even have to download the entire ADK either. I admit that I don't know if the 8.1 DISM will install on XP, but as long as Win Toolkit on XP can be used to build a Win7 install source, then I think it is still worthwhile. I'm really not trying to be an XP champion, I haven't run it myself in years, and I don't know for sure if the latest version of Win Toolkit even runs on XP for that matter. ( I'm also not sure if Win Toolkit runs on or can build an install source for Vista, but since it is part of the NT6 family I think it probably could be made so it does. Yes I know it's market share is low so that's not as important, but still.) But XP still has a large enough market share to not be ignored. So if we want to give those folks a way to use their existing install as a platform on which to build a Win7 or possibly even a Win8.x install source, and leaving code in to allow running on XP does not hurt the performance on other platforms, then why not? I'm trying to be a Win Toolkit champion! I would really like to see the usage of Win Toolkit continue to grow. It really irks me to see new users asking questions about how to use RT7Lite, when that app hasn't been updated in several years, but it is a recognized name and it is still used. I want Win Toolkit to be the go to tool for Win 7 and Win 8.x like nLite became for XP. And speaking of nLite, nuhi is expected to release his version of a tool to work on Win7 and Win8.x by sometime next month, and if nLite was any indication, then that might well become the major "competition" to Win Toolkit. WinAIO Maker Professional by Josh Cell, and Onepiece's DX WinNT6.x True Integrator for Windows Vista x86/x64, Windows 7 x86/x64 and Windows 8/8.1 x86/x64 are two existing "competitors", among others. I just figure the more versions of Windows that Win Toolkit can run on and the more versions it can make an install source for can only help it have a larger user base. And wouldn't that benefit us all? Cheers and Regards

True enough and no argument from me about that. After all, that's kind of what Win Toolkit is all about - helping folks make an install source for Win7 or 8.x in the easiest, most efficient way possible to help them move to the newer OS. But since being able to do that from XP was a feature of Win Toolkit, then I say no sense removing a feature until it is absolutely necessary. I think it would be sad to require you to already be on Win7 in order to make a Win7 install source. Let's not be like MS. But then that's just my 2 cents. Cheers and Regards

I can't answer that, but I am still avoiding IE11. There are still sites that have issues with it and I know of nothing that it can do that IE10 cannot. But then I avoid all use of any version of IE unless I have no other choice. Cheers and Regards

I wish it was dead already or wish that Windows 7 came with .NET 4 instead of 3.5 But, for folks that want or need to run Win Toolkit using XP as a host, assuming that is still possible, I would suggest sticking with 4.0 and not using 4.5, since AFAIK 4.0 can be installed on XP and 4.5 cannot. Cheers and Regards